I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land

[sovay]

Has anyone ever written a response to Kipling's "Mandalay"—either parodic or straight—from the perspective of Supayalat, the "Burma girl"? It seems inconceivable to me that someone should not have; the poem has been around since 1892 and it's famous. But I don't know whose collected poems I should be looking in. Friendlist?

"One gets used to the flying fishes, but that bloody dawn coming up like thunder is driving me crackers."
—Charles Addams (1977)

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[wakanomori.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if maybe it's this one, A girl painting her eyebrows, evidently from a painting by James Raeburn Middleton, a contemp. of Kipling's. It seems the image was quite quite well known in pre-war Britain. Middleton also did a well-known (or at least well enough that you can buy posters of it now) painting of a Burmese dancer. But the first one is listed along with a ref to Kipling's poem in Burmese design & architecture by John Falconer et al. (Tuttle, 2000) -- you can see it on Googlebooks, page 11 of the intro.

Nice icon, btw.